A once thriving Saharan tourist city with a rich but fading heritage faces harsh realities two years since Niger’s coup.

International criminal gangs have exploited instability in Sahel countries to build flourishing drug and human trafficking ...

In its continued efforts to ensure the safe and dignified return of Nigerian migrants, the National Emergency Management Agency has received 139 Nigerian returnees from Agadez, Niger Republic.The ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Agadez, a desert outpost in the West African country of Niger, was officially closed to migration for years in a deal with the European Union. Now, the gate has reopened.

For centuries, Agadez has profited from its role as a transit hub at the edge of the Sahara. Today its main cargo is human: Migrants, being smuggled to Libya.

Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion features the extraordinary Tuareg musician, Omara Moctar - "Bombino" - a rising star on the international scene.

A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's ...

AGADEZ, Niger—In this dust-caked desert outpost 200 miles from the nearest city, Idriss MohammadIdriss Mohammad spent his 20s scratching out a living driving tourists into the Sahara.

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3 million, with taxes and fees, to an anonymous ...